My younger brother is getting married next summer, and I’m happy for him. In addition to him being happy, and me getting a cool new sister-in-law, this move might even be good for the longevity of the newlyweds’ brains.
Married men tend to live several years longer than single men. A happy husband has an […]
As I mentioned in Neuroscience Conference 2007, we recently presented evidence that the Lumosity application is not only an effective way to improve cognition, but it is also a useful platform for conducting basic research. The following is an abridged version of the “lay language summary” the Society for Neuroscience asked us to provide for […]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Although acronyms are usually used to shorten a lengthy phrase, coming up with your own acronyms can be a helpful aid in remembering long grocery lists or building up your vocabulary for an upcoming exam. For those who don’t know, acronyms are formed using the […]
FreeRice has an addictive little vocabulary test that cleverly aligns your interest in charity and entertaining diversion. The hook is that for each word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through United Nations to people without enough to eat.
For those curious whether this is a meaningful amount of rice (I was), I […]
I spent the past several days at the huge (~32,000 attendees this year) Society for Neuroscience Conference (SFN) in San Diego. This annual meeting of neuroscientists is an opportunity to learn about the latest brain-related research going on throughout the world, and for each scientist to show off their own findings.
The sheer volume of people […]
